Hi, I'm Yixiao Tao

Robotics & AI  ·  UCL

Yixiao Tao

About Me

A Robotics and AI student at UCL, I'm drawn to how machines perceive the world — through vision, sound, and spatial understanding.

2018 – 2021 Ningbo Xiaoshi High School
2021 – 2025 Xiamen University Malaysia · BEng Computer Science and Technology
2025 – 2026 University College London · MSc Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

Projects

Side Project

VPR Loop Closure

ML / Robotics

A four-stage loop-closure front end for SLAM, built as a controlled classic-versus-modern comparison: every swap — ResNet18 to DINOv2, triplet loss to InfoNCE, ORB to DISK + LightGlue — is motivated by a measured failure of the stage it replaces. Zero-training DINOv2 features beat the fine-tuned ResNet18 under an open-set protocol (best F1 0.874 vs 0.796), and sequence re-ranking tripled Recall@100%-Precision from 0.23 to 0.69.

PyTorch DINOv2 SLAM Metric Learning LightGlue

Footprints

Skills & Interests

Languages

  • Python
  • C++
  • Java

Frameworks & Tools

  • PyTorch
  • React + FastAPI
  • Docker

Robotics & Perception

  • SLAM
  • Computer Vision
  • Multimodal Perception
  • Motion Planning
  • Model Predictive Control
  • Kalman Filter
  • Legged Robotics

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